Ah, one of my many other fav scenes. Where Armand came to Lestat, one more time and ask for his love but he got push off the roof by Lestat. (Why? Armand push Lestat off the tower back in Paris) so payback bitch X3
We can always use more of this kind of fanart, I don’t fill requests, but I’ll put it out there: #fanart request!
There’s some fanart already of them knocking each other off the tower, there are two scenes in canon, one where Armand knocks Lestat off the tower and the other, Lestat knocks Armand off
(a partial or
complete
hallucination)(both were in TVL). I’ll try to find and post what I have, here’s one:
You are not alone, there are others out there. People: Comment/Reblog if you ship Lestat/Armand *u* It’s an AU ship for me, I can ship almost anything AU.
They have a bizarre kind of chemistry, don’t they?! If they weren’t both so obsessed with being alpha, they could really enjoy each other.
This is one of the only fanarts I’ve seen of them in any kind of shippiness, and even then, I think it’s the scene in TVL where Lestat is succumbing to Armand’s illusions.
“You know it was the damnedest luck!” I whispered suddenly. “I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.”
[Source unknown, even reverse-image searched. Tell me the source if you know it!]
Anyhow they have referred to eachother in canon as being brothers of a sort, so I tag them #murder brothers, if you want more Lestat/Armand action.
That’s a great quote, anon, and a very good question *u*
[^by @garama and the illustration is more appropriate than you think; they are probably slinging insults back and forth telepathically!]
This quote was actually Armand talking to Lestat about Gabrielle and Nicolas (Lestat had not even met Louis and Claudia yet), and how foolish it was for Lestat to expect either of them to actually want to stay with him. AS IF?! We as readers also add in the fact that it could apply to Louis and Claudia, since we already know that further down the line, yes, they will choose to leave their maker.
Armand’s point is that no matter carefully chosen, every fledgling will inevitably leave their maker. The quote actually begins with: “Each time the death and the awakening will ravage the mortal spirit,” and then he goes into more reasons why the fledglings and makers end up parting. Gabrielle left because she wanted something Lestat couldn’t give her. Nicolas left for a number of reasons, some variation of madness could be part of it. Armand speaks with the knowledge of seeing many fledglings made, and he might even feel like he would not have chosen to stay with his own maker forever, if he had had the choice.
When Armand says “And the veil will always come down between you,” that’s about the fact that the telepathic connection that can exist between vampires and mortals
(vampire!Lestat could communicate telepathically with mortal!Gabrielle before she was turned)
will be lost with the Dark Gift*
Armand had it with mortal!Daniel.
It’s a deeply intimate connection and many makers and fledglings mourn its loss.
Armand is basically saying that you can turn however many mortals into vampires you want, but due to the act of turning a new vampire, you can’t keep them as a companion. The best and most true companionship is in finding other vampires who were turned by others. There are many reasons for finding a prefabricated vampire to love, but a major one is that the telepathic connection with them will still be possible!
*At least one fic writer, @vampchronfic, has L/L finding ways to chip away and even dissolve this limitation, and it’s bound them closer together, unlike any other ship in VC.
Lestat: I made this friendship bracelet for you.
Armand: You know, I’m not really a bracelet person.
Lestat: You don’t have to wear it.
Armand: No, I’m going to wear it forever. Back off.
I-want-my-IWTV 